[ksh93-integration-discuss] Differences between ksh88 and ksh93

[David Powell]

David Korn wrote:
 > Here is the list that comes with the shell source.
 > ==================== COMPATIBILITY=========================
 >
 > 			KSH-93 VS. KSH-88
 >
 >
 > The following is a list of known incompatibilities between ksh-93 and 
ksh-88.
 > I have not include cases that are clearly bugs in ksh-88.  I also have
 > omitted features that are completely upward compatible.

 > I am interested in expanding this list so please let me know if you
 > uncover any others.

   I am unable to create an alias with a colon ":" in its name.  e.g.

     $ alias :e=vi
     alias: :e=vi: invalid alias name

   This doesn't appear to be covered by any of the incompatibilities you
   listed, nor does it fall under any restriction I can find in the
   ksh93 documentation.

   Dave